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What is Psychotherapy ?
Psychotherapy is a way to help understand and change what’s not working in your life. It may mean trying to figure out why you find love so elusive, or why the more successful you become the more anxious you feel, or why you’re so self-critical. Your problems may focus on work, the personal realm, or both. In any case, psychotherapy brings highly individualized help where it’s needed. It involves identifying and understanding the problems that stand between you and happiness, and then working with your therapist to change the status quo.
In psychotherapy you’ll establish regular weekly appointment times with your therapist, then meet to talk through what’s on your mind. It may surprise you to find that simply talking with a therapist will frequently lighten the load, make you feel less alone, and lessen your symptoms. As you begin to feel better about yourself, possible solutions to your problems may become more obvious.
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What is Psychoanalysis ?
Sometimes problems are long-standing and cause serious disruption in professional or personal life. When this is the case, psychoanalysis, an intensive form of psychotherapy, may be indicated. Psychoanalysis can help you identify internal conflicts that lead you to repeat the same unsuccessful patterns in your life.
In psychoanalysis you generally meet with your analyst 4-5 times a week. Gradually, as the two of you work together to understand your problems, patterns of thought and behavior, often linked to events from the past, become self-evident. Ways of thinking so ingrained as to be automatic become apparent, and change can then occur.
Psychoanalysis is an intensive, useful, and often highly satisfying way of working through stubborn personal problems. It is also lengthy, and thus requires substantial commitment in terms of time and money, though reduced-fee analysis may be a possibility.